Reform of citizenship legislation in Finland will make easier for foreign nationals to acquire citizenship
Read the report in the Helsinki Times
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The Council of Europe’s commissioner for human rights urges European governments to grant citizenship to long-resident stateless Roma
Thomas Hammarberg the Council of Europe’s commissioner for human rights said stateless Roma who have settled in a host country for seven to eight years or more should be granted citizenship there, starting with their children. Read the interview on Read More …
Home Office withdraws British citizenship from increasing number of dual nationals
Read the report in The Guardian
Austrian regional party boss condemned for offering citizenship in exchange for party financing
By EUDO CITIZENSHIP coordinator Rainer Bauböck On 2 August 2011 Uwe Scheuch, head of the Carinthia Freedom Party, was condemned to 18 months prison, 12 months of which on suspended sentence, for offering a Russian investor Austrian citizenship as a Read More …
EU27 Member States granted citizenship to 776,000 persons in 2009
EU27 Member States granted citizenship to 776,000 persons in 2009Read the EUROSTAT press release of 10 June 2011 Read the full EUROSTAT report
The Venice Commission Criticizes Provisions on Protection of Kin Minorities in the New Hungarian Basic Law
by Mária Kovács and Szabolcs Pogonyi In its opinion published on 20 June 2011 the Council of Europe’s advisory body on constitutional matters, raises concerns over the Hungarian constitution making process. The European Commission for Democracy through Law, better known Read More …
Romanian Vice PM and leader of the Hungarian minority criticizes external voting rights in Hungarian elections
Béla Markó, Romanian Vice Prime Minister and former leader of the UDMR, the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania, said on Saturday that he does not agree with the proposal that Romanian Hungarians should vote in parliamentary elections in Hungary Read More …
Around 100,000 individuals got Hungarian citizenship abroad as an effect of the Citizenship Law approved in 2010
From: Euro|topics Press review of 28/06/2011 Tears of joy over nationalised Hungarians Around 100,000 Hungarians living outside their home country have received Hungarian citizenship since last year, a spokesman for the right-wing conservative government of Viktor Orbán announced on Monday. Read More …
New Irish Citizens will in the future attend formal citizenship ceremonies
Minister for Justice Alan Shatter announced key changes to the citizenship application procedure. The Government has decided to institute a formal ceremony to give proper recognition to the importance of becoming a citizen but not to introduce citizenship tests for Read More …
Will French traditional toleration of dual citizenship survive?
Read the report “Deux nationalités, une colère” in Libération (in French).